Watersheds Schuylkill River Watershed

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park

Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park, 1895

Queen Lane Reservoir pumping station

Queen Lane Pumping Station, proposed design

Mill Creek Sewer under construction. Several men standing beside a giant partially constructed sewer pipe.

Mill Creek Sewer under construction, 1883

Black-and-white image showing a factory, smokestacks and smoke, and streets

Dobson’s Mill, 1884, from History of Philadelphia by Scharf & Wescott

Black-and-white image of the title page of a government report

Perkiomen Water Supply Surveys, 1866

Birkinbine Schuylkill Hydrographical Survey 1861-66

Schuylkill River Hydrographical Survey 1861-66 by H. P. M. Birkinbine

Outhouse over Schuylkill near Pottstown

Outhouse over the Schuylkill near Pottstown

1855 litho of Philadelphia (Philaedelphie - French printing)

“Philadelphie,” Bird’s Eye View, 1855

Fairmount

Fairmount Water Works, about 1860

Sewage collection and disposal plan

Plan for the Collection, Purification and Disposal of the Sewage of the City of Philadelphia, 1912

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, 1869, Schuylkill flood, 1869

Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Schuylkill Flood 1869